I’ve wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.
I’ve seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.
I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.
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“.home.arpa” for A records.
I run my own CA and DNS, and can create vanity TLDs like: a.git, a.webmail, b.sync, etc for internal services. These are CNAMEs pointing to A records.
RFC 6762 defines the TLDs you can use safely in a local-only context:
*.intranet
*.internal
*.private
*.corp
*.home
*.lanBe a selfhosting rebel, but stick to the RFCs!
How do you get https on those though? A lot of random stuff requires https these days.
https is not a problem. But you’ll need an internal CA and distributed its certificate to your hosts’ trust store.
do not use
.local, as tempting as it may beuse
.homepersonallyI use >!.cunt!< for my local TLD. Stands for Can’t Use New Technologies from IT Crowd.
It makes it comnical when I let friends onto my wifi.
I had problems with .local because it’s used for MDNS and too lazy to figure out how that works so now I just use lan but I also own a .com domain so I have started to use that more
GDI, I have been using internal.registereddomain.com which is 5 wasted characters…
.localis mDNS - and I’m using that, saves me so much hassle with split-horizon issues etc.I also use global DNS for local servers (AAAA records on my own domain), again, this eliminates split-horizon issues. Life is too short to deal with the hassle of running your own DNS server.
If you want to avoid problems, use TLD that are assigned for this purpose, for example
.home.arpaor.homeor.lanor.privateetc.Avoid using
.localbecause its already used by mDNS..damo
I mean… I use xtremeownage.com
But, ya know… I own it. Although, I use a few subdomains for my home-network, with a split-horizon DNS setup.
Nothing. I have all devices using tailscale DNS and I refer to things in my network by their host name directly.
I own lastname.me and lastname.dev and everything public is lastname.me and everything local ist lastname.dev. I don’t have a VPS anymore so the .me domain is a bit useless and only relevant for emails these days but I’d have something like nc.lastname.me for my public next cloud instance and docs.lastname.dev for my paperless instance that I don’t want to have on somebody else’s machine.
Why use a different domain for local as external?
lastname. systems
I used to own lastname.cloud and foolishly let that expire. Its one of my biggest regrets.
I Just use a .de tld and for all my sites a *.mysite.mydomain.de.
Ssl certs from cloudflare with a dns challenge for internal use.
I use homelab…org